The University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Madison Metropolitan School District approved an initiative targeted at enhancing student achievement at a MMSD Board of Education meeting Monday, according to a university news release.
Just a day after its setup, a living room tucked into a corridor outside of the Humanities building has attracted the attention of multiple passersby on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus, including freshmen Olivia Gallenberger and Selia Salzsieder.
The Associated Students of Madison Student Services Finance Committee met Monday to discuss midyear budget transfers for groups funded by the General Student Services Fund.
The train of American education boards students at preschool and stops every nine months when summer rolls around to allow passengers to stretch their legs and explore the scenery, in hopes they will find an academic track to continue navigating before reaching the final destination of college graduation.
Twenty-five wooden desks sit in neat rows facing a blackboard covered in fragments of calculus equations, foreign words and declarations that “Erin was here,” all smeared and clouded by dust-saturated erasers. A clock hangs above the exit—a lagging reminder of the minutes remaining in class, while a teacher at the front drones to sleepy-eyed students.
In 2010, the University of Wisconsin-Madison set aside $1.5 million in supplemental student tuition charges to improve the quality and accessibility of academic and career advising for undergraduate students.
Expensive introductory textbooks? Check. A more refined wardrobe to impress potential new friends? Check. Self-conducted cost-benefit analysis of majors with their average post-graduate earnings to determine an academic path before struggling through a basic economics class? Probably not.
“The modern university doesn’t believe in a curriculum,” University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Richard Avramenko insists.
How tired do you feel right now? How many papers, work shifts and parties are pulling on your conscious, demanding your attention? How are you going to cope? Students and doctors question the largely unknown long-term effects of stimulant drugs and whether they are worth the risk.
When future Badgers and roommates-to-be Abigail Miller and Megan Baker first made plans to meet on University of Wisconsin-Madison’s campus Sunday, they did not anticipate joining a crowd of thousands in welcoming home the Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
Members of University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Student Labor Action Coalition met with Chancellor Rebecca Blank Friday to discuss the enforcement of the Accord for Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh signed by the chancellor earlier this month.
Chef, author and sustainable food advocate Alice Waters spoke on the uncompromising cultural force of fast food as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Lecture Series Thursday.
A national research center led by a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor may help save the Defense Department millions of dollars on the logistics of shipping military equipment, according to a statement Wednesday.
3/28/2014: This story has been updated to reflect the role of WARF in professorship funding.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced the launch of its fourth Massive Open Online Course Wednesday.
The Fossil Free University of Wisconsin Coalition presented a divestment resolution encouraging the UW Foundation to stop the usage of fossil fuels at a Associated Students of Madison Student Council meeting Wednesday.
Former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China and Singapore Jon Huntsman Jr. will deliver the University of Wisconsin-Madison 2014 spring commencement address, according to a statement Wednesday.
The Associated Students of Madison Sustainability Committee met Wednesday to discuss future projects under the recently approved 2015 Green Fund.
Gov. Scott Walker announced the appointment of Nicolas Harsy as a non-traditional student representative on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents in a March 26 release.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a seminar Wednesday in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, featuring UW-Madison Law School alumna Velvelea “Vel” Phillips as the keynote speaker.
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